Video: How a wind farm helped transform an Ohio town
Residents of Van Wert, Ohio discuss how a wind project turned their town’s economic prospects around. (Editor’s note – the Ohio Environmental Council is a member of RE-AMP, which publishes Midwest...
View ArticleCommentary: Looking forward, and backward, in Michigan
Skip Pruss is a principal and co-founder of 5 Lakes Energy LLC in Lansing. By Skip Pruss 2015 will be a watershed year for energy policy in Michigan – and few states will be watched as carefully by...
View ArticleCommentary: How Prairie State puts small towns at risk
Bowling Green, Ohio. (Photo by Pierre Metivier via Creative Commons) By Neocles Leontis All across the Midwest, communities manacled to Prairie State Energy Campus are seeing their electricity rates go...
View ArticleCommentary: In Midwest, bipartisan support for clean energy
Alli Gold Roberts is a Policy Associate at Ceres. By Alli Gold Roberts Get consumer-brand companies, investors and state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle together in a room to talk about clean...
View ArticleCommentary: A new power plant, despite overcapacity
Michael Vickerman is program and policy director of RENEW Wisconsin. By Michael Vickerman Undeterred by the surfeit of generating capacity available to serve Wisconsin electricity customers, Green...
View ArticleCommentary: Are conservatives turning a corner on climate?
Bob inglis is a former U.S. Representative from South Carolina. By Bob Inglis There’s still a long way to go, but conservatives may have begun to move on climate change. Fifteen Republican U.S....
View ArticleCommentary: FirstEnergy’s slide persists as it pursues bailout
Cathy Kunkel is an IEEFA fellow. Cross posted from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis By Cathy Kunkel FirstEnergy’s most recent quarterly numbers and its outlook for 2015 are...
View ArticleVideo: Michigan conservatives speak out on clean energy
In a new video released by the Michigan Conservative Energy Forum, prominent state Republicans discuss the need for their party to be involved in clean-energy discussions.
View ArticleCommentary: Time for monopoly reform in Minnesota
Atlanta Tea Party activist Debbie Dooley is president of Conservatives for Energy Freedom. By Debbie Dooley The college Republicans and Democrats at the College of Saint Mary and Saint John’s...
View ArticleCommentary: Business, beauty and Minnesota’s energy future
Dave Rapaport is the Vice President of Earth and Community Care at Aveda, based in Blaine, Minnesota. By Dave Rapaport What could the creation of beauty products derived from botanical ingredients have...
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